promenade
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On the promenade itself, views mostly ran pro-park one recent day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The 150-year-old wych elm on the central promenade took more than 30% of the national public vote.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Facing the sea, Havana's famous Malecon seawall has ceased to be a promenade for tourists or lovers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
At L’Alegria de l’Horta on the Malvarrosa Beach promenade, I sit in pressed clothes and drink fine Valencian wine.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2026
This park, or promenade, is right along the river separating Brooklyn from Manhattan.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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Once little more than a dirt path used by prospecting gold miners, it later became one of the country’s first pedestrian-only promenades when the city closed it off to traffic in the 1970s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
These sort of wind speeds will lead to large coastal waves which are likely to overtop the sea walls and promenades.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2026
You may think of Venice as a flat neighborhood of beach promenades and walkable, shop-lined boulevards, but that’s not taking into account the sidewalk mountain ranges scattered about the area.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2024
The state transportation department is replacing old, rusting metal pipes with broad, concrete promenades that provide more gradual gradients and gentler flows for salmon swimming upstream to access more spawning grounds.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 19, 2023
I feel like one of the famed courtiers depicted in the beauty-scopes or painted on Trianon's promenades and avenue boards.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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From Johannesburg to Cape Town and other areas across the country thousands of people, most with mandated face masks and keeping some distance, promenaded outside.
From Washington Times ● May 1, 2020
Memories of I-10 bedlam began to evaporate as we promenaded through the compact, tiered garden, serenaded by the gentle babble of small fountains.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 6, 2018
The reservoirs are currently undergoing a modernization process that may convert them into a promenaded recreation area akin to Echo Park.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2016
I would to God Shakespeare had lived later, & promenaded in Broadway.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2016
The revelers promenaded in pairs, women in bustled ball gowns in bright candy colors, men in frock coats with waxed mustaches.
From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater
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"Here's hoping we have some nice weather for the promenading pooches."
From Salon ● Aug. 4, 2023
As dancers, they breathed together — calmly holding balances or promenading in attitude or arabesque — and like Dunn, they sometimes embodied the natural world, too.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
It will spend another 3 years promenading among the moons, eventually ending up in a tight orbit around Ganymede—the first time a spacecraft will orbit a moon other than Earth’s.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 5, 2023
We saw startling modernization of Saudi society — I could never have imagined street musicians and unveiled women promenading in Jiddah.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2022
I was a bride, promenading down the center aisle of San Juan Evangelista twenty years back to marry the man with whom I would have our dear children, dearer than my life.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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